Opinion

Opinion

Rethinking Semester at Sea

By Cari Lynn Hennessey | February 28, 2006

THE SEMESTER at Sea program might sound like every student's dream: Starting this summer, students can literally go on a cruise and receive academic credit for it, a concept that would no doubt make Thomas Jefferson proud. According to a former participant's letter to The Cavalier Daily, the program has been nicknamed "The Booze Cruise" and "Kindergarten at Sea" in honor of low academic standards and heavy drinking.

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The best port in a storm

By Allan Cruickshanks | February 28, 2006

WITH NEARLY 12,500 miles of coastline and 300 ports, including more than a dozen major ports such as New York City and Hampton Roads, the United States faces an extremely difficult task in ensuring the safety of its borders.

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Testing the test

By Sina Kian | February 28, 2006

THE DISCUSSION of Advance Placement tests has become more prominent as even President Bush found time in his State of the Union address to herald the increasing number of students enrolled in AP programs.

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Democrats discharge

By Eric Wang | February 27, 2006

NOT SINCE Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton has a vice president taken so much flak for discharging a firearm.

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Localizing abortion

By Noah Peters | February 27, 2006

THE ABORTION issue, ever controversial, is reaching a new crisis, with the Supreme Court set to hear arguments on the federal ban on so-called "partial birth" abortions in the fall.

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A well considered consensus

By Karin Agness and Josh Hess | February 27, 2006

ABOUT a year ago, opponents of the single sanction demonstrated the depth of their resolve to eliminate the organizing principle of our honor system.

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Opinion

Effective coverage of elections

By Lisa Fleisher | February 27, 2006

THERE has been a lot of very complicated stuff going on at the University these past few weeks. The Opinion pages, for one, have been on fire with people sounding off about the consensus clause up for consideration in this week's election.

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Opinion

Marketing obesity

By Christa Byker | February 24, 2006

AMERICAN indulgence and overabundance are most concentrated in the food industry. In an article published in Healthy Day, Dr. David L.

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Opinion

Seven reasons against "consensus"

By John Clark | February 24, 2006

UNIVERSITY students have energetically debated the single sanction for decades. Yet never have single sanction critics come close to repealing or mitigating the requirement of expulsion upon findings of an honor violation. Nonetheless, die-hard sanction supporters feel compelled to permanently insulate the sanction from current and future debate.

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Opinion

Trade without morals

By Josh Levy | February 24, 2006

TRADE PREVENTS wars, they say. This guiding prinicple has become the cornerstone of the United Nations and World Trade Organization (W.T.O.), especially under the Clinton Administration.

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A recipe for greener dining

By Prashanth Parameswaran | February 24, 2006

IF THERE is one similarity between Cheney's Quail-Gate episode and the dining hall's response to Green Dining's "No Tray Tuesdays" initiative, it is the rank smell of scandal and Dining's initial unwillingness to assume responsibility for its actions.

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Respecting the rule of law at Gitmo

By Danile Colbert | February 24, 2006

LAST WEEK, a United Nations report on the United States' prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, accused the U.S.

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A new environmentalism

By Whitney Blake | February 23, 2006

"HEARTLESS capitalists (i.e. lumber companies) are destroying the rainforests at a rate of 2 football fields an hour." We've all been told some variation of this statistic since elementary school.

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Clarifying the partner benefits referendum

By Seth Croft | February 23, 2006

LAST WEEK while conducing endorsement interviews for Queer & Allied Activism, I was shocked when a candidate for the Honor Committee asked me if I supported Student Council's resolution supporting domestic partner benefits, implying that it might have been an effort to make members of Council look good before elections this spring.

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Putting a woman in the White House

By Marta Cook | February 23, 2006

HAIR, HEMLINES and Husband. According to Marie Wilson of the White House Project, women are judged by these three qualities before they even open their mouths.

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The contradictory consensus clause

By Patrick Harvey | February 23, 2006

IT'S A testament to how awful the consensus clause is that despite numerous columns, editorials and letters that have appeared on these very pages, I was still able to hammer out an entire column with still more arguments against the consensus clause.

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Financing Freedom

By Adam Silverberg | February 23, 2006

THE FEDERAL Budget currently is in dour shape. Tax cuts and reckless federal spending, especially in the defense sector, have left the economy with an enormous federal deficit. To add flames to the fire, recently the Bush administration has introduced its version of the budget -- a hideous mess of cutting programs designed primarily for poor and working class Americans while continuing to cut taxes for the rich.

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Opinion

Consensus nonsensus

By AJ Kornblith | February 22, 2006

ABOUT A year ago, I wrote a column about how student government here at the University had survived spring elections by the skin of its teeth, fending off an aberration dubbed "the consensus clause" by supporters by only half a percent of the vote. Now, a year later, a minimally moderated version of that same proposal that would just as effectively set the status quo in stone has made the climb to the ballot box.

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Triviality: not trivial

By Alexander Hawkins | February 22, 2006

SHAKESPEARE said, "That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet." The Bard has a point here.

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Digging ourselves deeper

By Stephen Parsley | February 22, 2006

JUST A MONTH ago, American policy in the Middle East seemed to be proceeding fairly smoothly. President Bush's plan to promote democracy in the region, while encountering obstacles, at least showed clear progress in Afghanistan and Iraq.